CHAPTER 2

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This series takes place after The Adventures of Rose Tyler, Time Lady Chapter 66 and before the storyline started in Jenny Tyler, Time's Angel Chapter 35.

Selene finally hit upon a way to free her two sisters and her brother-in-law during her second run through of the song that had gotten stuck in her head. She found a hidden back door in the Cybermen's computer that allowed her instant access immediately to the clamps holding them prisoner. She ordered the computer to open the clamps, and they instantly popped open letting them all go.

"Who says it doesn't pay to fool around for endless hours writing code on your computer? It also helps to have the knowledge of a Time Lady. That certainly doesn't hurt either," Selene said happily to herself.

"You can pat yourself on the back later, Selene. Let's go," Amy said.

Julia looked very upset as she slowly walked up to Selene as if afraid of her. She had watched the entire transformation from human to Time Lady in horror. She didn't understand that Selene was still Francine in all of the ways that mattered.

"Julia, it's still me. I promise," Selene said gently.

"No! You took her away from me! She was all that I had left, and you came out of that watch and took her!" Julia screamed.

"Julia, that's not true. She's still your sister. I'll explain it to you later. We have to get out of here right now though," Amy said.

Julia wasn't listening. She overcame her fear of Selene and marched right up to her in a fury. She then proceeded to start slapping Selene as hard as she could in the face.

"Bring her back! Bring her back!" Julia screamed.

Selene grabbed Julia's hands and held them tightly while she struggled to break free of her. Selene's hearts broke as she could see Julia break down in front of her and start crying uncontrollably.

"You killed my sister!" Julia said with unbearable pain in her voice.

"No. I am Francine. I promise. It's still me," Selene said gently as she began to cry now too.

"We so don't have time for this. Kovarian will be back soon if I know her. We have to get out of here," Amy insisted.

"She doesn't understand, and I can't make her. She won't listen, Cliodna," Selene said in despair.

"It's Amy now. Cliodna's dead. Take her with you, and we'll explain everything to her back in the TARDIS," Amy said.

"You mean you took someone over and killed them too?! What have I gotten myself trapped into?" Julia asked in pure anguish.

"She's Amy and Cliodna, Julia. She wasn't being literal when she said that," Rory tried to explain.

"Who did you kill?" Julia accused through tears.

"No one! I'm just plain old Rory. I never thought I'd be glad to just be me. I sometimes used to wish that I was someone else growing up, but now I can see that it's not all that it's cracked up to be," Rory mused.

"You're not helping, Stupid Face," Amy said in irritation.

"Sorry. I don't know what to say to her either to calm her down. How do you explain the Chameleon Arch to a little girl? I'm not sure I understand it completely myself," Rory asked.

"I'm sorry. I don't know what to do either. Selene, you're just going to have to hold her tightly until we can get to the TARDIS. Make sure that she doesn't escape," Amy said.

"No!" Julia shouted in fear.

"She's not our prisoner. She's as much my sister as you are," Selene said with heartfelt emotion as she looked in Julia's eyes to bring her point home to her. She felt terrible for putting Julia through this, especially so soon after their parents' deaths.

"I know that. It's the only way that we can get her out of her safely though," Amy said.

"No! I won't go!" Julia protested.

They were all interrupted by the sound of joyful laughter. They turned to see Kovarian standing there with a large grin on her face. Amy sighed as she realized that things had just gotten that much harder now.

If only Julia had listened and gone with them when they wanted to! She didn't really blame her though. She knew that the poor girl didn't understand what had happened to Selene and was still too upset about what had happened to her parents to be able to think clearly.

"This is all so very amusing I must say. The Pond family arguing and fighting like they're auditioning for their own reality television show. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to cancel this particular show before it can become a regular series though as pleasurable as that would be to watch," Kovarian said with an evil grin.

"It's the Williams family actually," Rory pointed out.

"Oh, who cares?! The point is that you're all going to die. I'm afraid that this is the end for you because I'm pulling the plug. This particular show is going to have to be replaced in the schedule," Kovarian said.

"Somebody watched a little too much television growing up apparently. Is that part of the Silence indoctrination program? Forcing bad television down the throats of their recruits? No wonder you're all so twisted!" Amy joked.

"Oh, knock it off with the cracks about television, will you? I'll have you know that there's still plenty of good stuff on TV," Selene said.

"Really? Name one good show," Amy challenged her.

"Well, there's that show that Julia always watches every Saturday. It's called Professor Why or something like that. Did I get that right, Jules? That's the best show on to me. I can always count on it to keep Julia quiet for an hour," Selene said.

"Oh, yes. I have seen that. It's never been the same since that last girl left though. She made the show in my opinion," Amy said.

"Oh, I agree. She was my favorite assistant easily," Selene said.

"I don't know. I kind of liked that guy that was always with her. He was very witty and clever I thought," Rory said.

"You would think that," Amy said with a big smile.

"I liked the blonde girl the best myself," Julia said as she spoke for the first time since she and Selene had fought.

Selene rubbed the top of Julia's head fondly as she said, "I know. She's always been one of my favorites too."

"It is you, isn't it?" Julia asked.

"Of course it is. Who else would put up with you? Anyone else would have tossed you out on your bum a long time ago," Selene joked as she hugged Julia to her tightly.

"She's definitely your sister alright," Rory said to Amy.

"You've got quite the mouth on you today, don't you?" Amy asked him as she glared at him.

"I've had enough of your mindless rambling! Kill them all!" Kovarian shouted.

Several Headless Monks began to pour into the room with their swords drawn. Amy and Selene shared a look of silent communication then, the kind of look that can only be shared between two people who have known each other all of their lives. Both of them instantly knew what the other had planned then, and they both sprang into action instantly.

Amy and Selene both began to fight unarmed against the Headless Monks using various battle techniques that both had learned throughout their long history. Amy began to go into action using a long forgotten defensive combat technique that she had once learned from K'anpo Rimpoche, the hermit Time Lord that had been the Doctor's mentor long ago.

She grabbed the closest monk to her and threw him over her shoulder while grabbing his sword from him at the same time. Then she started to fight the other monks with some sword fighting moves that she had once picked up from Cleopatra herself. That reminded her that she would have to say hello to her whenever she got the chance to drop by Lily's TARDIS.

As Amy did her best Three Musketeers impression, Selene was fighting with the monks using a long forgotten Martian martial art known as Karsando Jo. Basically it was an Ice Warrior version of Karate, Kung Fu, and Jiu-Jitsu all mixed together. She had learned it after Cliodna had left her behind on Gallifrey, and she had gone wandering around the universe by herself trying to find a purpose for her life.

Several monks regretted trying to attack her as she sent them flying into walls and each other. She also broke several of their bones along the way as well with several well placed chops. She was making sure that none of them would get anywhere close to Julia.

"When did you learn that?" Amy asked Selene in surprise as she saw all of this through the corner of her eye.

"When you left me behind on Gallifrey, I decided to take my own little tour of time and space. I went to a lot of places and learned a lot of things here and there. There's a lot about me that you don't know now," Selene said with a tone of resentment in her voice.

Amy looked at her in sorrow for all the things that she had missed out on in her life for a moment, and then she focused all of that emotion into taking down the monks. She quickly tore through their ranks and left them all lying in a heap on the floor.

"Pretty cool, Sis! It seems that you learned a few things as well," Selene said proudly.

"That's nothing. I actually did some sword fighting with some actual pirates once," Amy said with a grin.

"Oh, yeah!" Rory said with a smile on his face.

"That smile better be about me fighting those pirates and not about that Siren woman," Amy said.

"Of course it's about you. You looked good as a pirate. Very good," Rory said.

"Thanks. Maybe I can find another pirate outfit sometime," Amy promised him with a wink.

"Ew!" Selene said with her nose wrinkled up at their flirting.

"I'm forced to agree with you. Now I have a renewed zeal to kill all of you in order to wipe that horrible mental image from my mind," Kovarian said.

"It's no picnic having it in my mind either you know," Selene answered as she shuddered.

The Cybermen began to charge into the room next as they began firing on all of them. Yet again they were accompanied by the Silence just as they had been when they had captured them before. Amy didn't want a repeat of last time. This time she wanted to get out of here before she could forget the Silence again so that they couldn't ambush her.

Then she began to grin as she had an incredible idea. She summoned up her extra sonic screwdriver from the pocket dimension that she sometimes stored things in and began to use it to start destroying several of the Cybermen. She saved one of them from total destruction however for a special purpose.

"Cover me," Amy said as she began to use her sonic to do something special to the lone Cyberman.

"With what? I don't have any weapons!" Selene complained.

"Do your Kung Fu thing or something," Amy said dismissively.

"Oh, yeah! Sure! I'll just do my Kung Fu thing and take out a whole army of Silence and Cybermen all by myself because I'm a freaking superhero apparently!" Selene said annoyed.

"Your superhero name could be Miss Big Mouth. Your superpower is complaining so much that you make everyone run away from you," Julia said giggling.

"Nice, Jules! Hit me when I'm down, why don't you?" Selene said with a smile. She was secretly glad that her little sister was talking to her again.

Amy threw her sword to Rory so that he could help Selene to keep the Cybermen and Silence busy while she continued to do some work on her captured Cyberman. Julia joined Amy after she motioned to her to come over to her.

"What are you doing?" Julia asked Amy.

"I'm about to get us some extra help, and hopefully they'll help get us out of here this time," Amy said.

Amy finished working on the Cyberman with her screwdriver, and it immediately stood to attention next to her.

"Who do you take orders from now?" Amy asked it triumphantly.

"You," the Cyberman answered in its cold metallic voice.

"I want you to keep fighting the Silence even when we forget that they're there. Don't stop until you've dealt with all of them," Amy ordered it.

"Yes, I will obey. Then will I be free?" the Cyberman asked.

Amy looked at the Cyberman in surprise. She hadn't anticipated that response.

"What do you mean?" Amy asked.

"I want to be free to do what I want to do. I don't want to serve anyone else ever again," the Cyberman said.

"You remember who you are then?" Amy asked.

"Stop chatting and join in the fight! I need a little help over here!" Selene called out.

"I remember who I used to be, yes. I know that I can never be that person again, but I wish to be free to be my own master. I will not harm anyone once my job here is done. Do you agree to this?" the Cyberman asked.

Amy hesitated for a minute, but something in her gut told her that she could trust this Cyberman for some reason so she finally agreed.

"I'll set you free if you help me and my family to escape from here," Amy said.

"Thank you. You will not regret this I promise," the Cyberman said.

Amy joined Rory and Selene as they fought with the Cybermen and the Silence while Amy's new Cyber friend protected them all from attack by any of the Silence that left their sight.

Julia stayed close to Amy at all times now while she kept an eye out for her. She could see that the girl was terrified but trying her best not to show it. From time to time, Amy lightly tousled her hair to reassure her that despite all the destruction going on around them that she was safe as long as she was with her.

Between the five of them, they managed to quickly fight their way out of the Cyber Ship and away from Kovarian until they reached an escape pod. Luckily, they were still in orbit around Kalista so it didn't take long for them to reach the planet's surface once they escaped in the pod. They soon found Amy's TARDIS and left the area before Kovarian and her friends managed to send anyone else after them.

Rory looked uneasily at the Cyberman standing motionless in the Console Room as he whispered, "Are you really going to just let the Cyberman go?"

"Yes, as soon as I find out where he or she wants me to drop them off. I've freed them from their original programming. They're under the control of their original human mind now," Amy said.

"I still don't like it. It just seems so irresponsible," Rory said.

"I normally wouldn't do something like this either, but I just get a special feeling from this Cyberman. It's like I can trust them. I don't know what it is, but something about them makes me trust them," Amy said with a faraway look in her eyes.

The Cyberman was listening to their conversation from halfway across the room. He was sure now that he was doing the right thing. Cliodna was happy here with her family. He didn't need to tell her the truth and ruin all of that for her. It was better for him to just have her let him out on some distant planet somewhere then to take a chance of ruining her life.

It was far better for her if she never found out that he was Oisin, her original Time Lord husband from long ago who had been converted into a Cyberman. She thought that he had died, but he had survived and been upgraded over and over again through the centuries.

Through some odd coincidence, Cliodna had picked him to free out of all of the others. She had saved him again after all of this time. It was the least that he could do now to pay her back for that by saving her from himself.

Next: River Song finally appears as we find out just what happens next to Oisin.